After 5 years making an attempt to make Intel right into a competitor for Nvidia and AMD within the realm of discrete graphics for players and past — with restricted success — Raja Koduri is leaving Intel to type his personal generative AI startup. The Verge stories: Intel employed him away from AMD in 2017, the place he was equally in control of all the graphics division, and it was an thrilling get on the time! Not solely had Intel poached a chief architect who’d simply gone on sabbatical however Intel additionally revealed that it did so as a result of it needed to construct discrete graphics playing cards for the primary time in (what would develop into) 20 years. Koduri had beforehand been poached for equally thrilling initiatives, too — Apple employed him away from AMD forward of a formidable string of graphics enhancements, after which AMD introduced him again once more in 2013.
Intel has but to deliver actual competitors to the discrete graphics card house as of Koduri’s departure. […] However the firm has a protracted GPU roadmap, so it is attainable issues get higher and extra aggressive in subsequent gens. It took loads longer than 5 years for Nvidia and AMD to make it that far. By the point Koduri left, he wasn’t simply in control of graphics but in addition Intel’s “accelerated computing” initiatives, together with issues like a crypto chip.
